🤣🤣🤣 get ready for commonly reliable, daily-use websites to go down, whether Lemmy, or business. 🤣🤣🤣

Cloudflare has revealed it will farewell 1,100 staff, due to its current and future use of AI.

In a blog post that oozes Orwellian “doublespeak”

…this entire article’s premise is based on the “doublespeak,” though? You are literally pumping AI fear and hype based on a company’s blog article because it benefits you.

This is a plain old layoff, just like all the others. CNBC talked about it last October. The LA Times talked about it in March of this year.

It’s not hard to understand if you don’t benefit from AI rage bait like The Register does.

Hack “journalists” like this are the reason the AI hype won’t go away. He’s too stupid to read between the lines or understand that he’s a huge part of the problem.

The Cloudflare CEO even contradicts the “it’s AI, I’m telling you” narrative, right in the same article:

“We have seen that there are roles at Cloudflare that are not the roles we need for the future,” Prince responded. “Just because you are fit does not mean you cannot get fitter. Over the last six months especially, the productivity gains from the people directly talking to customers and directly creating code have been incredible, and a lot of the support roles behind them are not going to be the roles that drive companies going forward.”

Doesn’t matter though, The Register can squeeze another AI layoff article in there to get people riled up!

Less money for middle class and more money for investors owning Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic.
Make no mistake about what's happening, that's wealth transfer from the bottom to the top.

we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers

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The MBAs have won.

Every company that fires people for AI is going to regret it so much in the long run...

Employees across the company from engineering to HR to finance to marketing run thousands of AI agent sessions each day to get their work done

Meanwhile the employees:

"we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers"

God, I hate corpo-speak so much.

A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.

So AI bad or good? Getting whiplashed here.

That tracks. Cloudflare was probably overdue to make a good solid run at grabbing defeat out of the jaws of success.

Edit: Hijacking this to answer the question on some of our minds:

"What was the name of that open source alternative I was able to ignore while CloudFlare was actually doing their job?"

It's Anubis

34% YoY revenue growth but that isn’t enough! We want your salary also! Raaaaawr

Everyone needs to stop twiddling their thumbs and organize their workplaces.

Ah yes, the elimination of jobs is always good for society.

Brave move after recent years

Jokes on them I’ve been training ai to seize the means of production

ugh I host my domains with them, but probably high time I switched away :/

edit: and done! switched to a local host :)

The halting problem is your friend. Have one agent review the work of another agent and then have trade places in an endless loop.

Useless company with useless services from silicon wankers.

so i have to boycott Cloudflare now?
but imma wait until more Sources cover this, i dont want to rely soly on the register.

oh wait..that shitty service that thousands of people complained about is doing something even worse?!

well I'll just boycott them when it's convenient...

600% increase in ai agent usage cant be coincidence